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Tumbleweed Express

Tumbleweed Express

Trains with guns on them in the Wild West! Shoot, upgrade, customize, and mount up to defeat brutal outlaws and ruthless businessmen! Tumbleweed Express is a tower, or travel, defense game set in the American West.

Released May 31, 2016 Developer The Dirigiballers, LLC Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux IndieActionAdventureTrainsOn-Rails Shooter
View on Steam ↗ $3.99 (US · as of 2026-09-28)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

89.9%positive129 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“This brings me back... Definitely pick up the soundtrack. :P”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

19achievements
27.6%median completion
8.3%rarest: Multitasker
81.1% of players 63.8% of players 61.1% of players 60.6% of players 51.0% of players 40.5% of players 32.3% of players 32.0% of players 30.2% of players 27.6% of players 24.3% of players 23.9% of players 20.1% of players 17.4% of players 15.5% of players 14.7% of players 12.1% of players 11.6% of players 8.3% of players 81.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
81.1%Welcome Home — Return to the Warehouse
63.8%You've got mail — Find a golden envelope
61.1%Hatches Battened — Complete a level without losing a single freight car
Rarest badges of honor
8.3%Multitasker — Complete five contracts at the same time
11.6%Top of the Line — Fully upgrade a freight car
12.1%Mailman — Find all golden envelopes

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Dec 22, 2016
Version 1.2.aa490b6 (Patch 2)

Defenders of the West, we've addressed more of your feedback and a few house keeping tasks. If there are any problems with any downloads, please let us know and we will try to resolve as fast as possi

Dec 22, 2016
Version 1.2.aa490b6 (Patch 2)

Defenders of the West, we've addressed more of your feedback and a few house keeping tasks. If there are any problems with any downloads, please let us know and we will try to resolve as fast as possi

Jul 07, 2016
Version 1.1.2cb5430 (Patch 1)

Defenders of the West, today is an exciting day! We recently completed our first patch which introduces a few player requested features, includes the release of our original soundtrack as DLC, and con

Jul 07, 2016
Version 1.1.2cb5430 (Patch 1)

Defenders of the West, today is an exciting day! We recently completed our first patch which introduces a few player requested features, includes the release of our original soundtrack as DLC, and con

Jun 20, 2016
June Podcast, Presentation, and Game Jam

Defenders of the West, thank you for all your support and great feedback thus far. We wanted to provide you with a little bit of information about our upcoming schedule: PODCAST (June 21st, 2016 @ 7 P

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie
Player tagsIndie · Action · Adventure · Trains · On-Rails Shooter · Singleplayer · Tower Defense (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * *
Achievements19
Official sitehttp://www.dirigiballers.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU @ 1.7 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel(R) HD 4000 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 3 GB available space Sound Card: Sound Blaster Recond3Di Additional Notes: Development Test Device